Arctic Wolf has acquired US-based Sevco Security. With this acquisition, the security operations provider aims to expand its platform with exposure assessment and asset intelligence capabilities.
Sevco’s technology will be integrated into Arctic Wolf‘s Aurora Platform. It is designed to help organizations gain better insight into their IT assets and associated risks, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Sevco Security develops a cloud-native platform that provides organizations with an up-to-date, centralized overview of all known assets and exposures. This information is combined with context about vulnerabilities and existing security measures. According to Arctic Wolf, this enables not only to see where vulnerabilities are located, but also to determine which pose the greatest risk to the organization.
Shift from reactive to proactive security
The acquisition is part of a broader movement within cybersecurity. Organizations are trying to work less reactively. Instead of resolving incidents after the fact, they want to identify and address risks earlier. According to Arctic Wolf, this requires a continuous, reliable view of the attack surface. This is difficult to achieve with traditional vulnerability lists.
Within Arctic Wolf, Sevco’s technology is seen as a complement to the existing Managed Risk service. According to the company, bringing the two together creates a real-time overview of assets and risks, with better prioritization and more consistency in recovery processes.
Sevco also positions the acquisition as an acceleration of its own ambitions. CEO and co-founder J.J. Guy says that Sevco was founded to provide security teams with an up-to-date and authoritative overview of all assets and exposures. By becoming part of Arctic Wolf, he believes this approach can be rolled out to a larger group of organizations that need better insight, sharper priorities, and demonstrable progress in risk reduction.
Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed.